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Season 12 (1980-1981)

Sesame Street
Season premiere	November 24, 1980 (1446)
Season finale	May 22, 1981 (1575)
No. of episodes	130

Sesame Street Season 12 aired from November 24, 1980 to May 22, 1981.

1 Season Overview
2 Episodes
3 Cast
4 Season 12 Credits
5 Sources

Season Overview Edit

This season adds traffic safety messages to their curriculum and also teach print symbols that children will encounter in class such as underlining, circling, folding, and crossing out. The show will continue to educate children in pre-reading, counting, and pre-science.^[1]

EpisodesEdit

Episodes 1446 - 1575 (130 episodes)

Episode 1446 -- 12th season premiere, Big Bird Goes to School
Episode 1497 -- Mr. Ortiz's sister visits
Episode 1563 -- Maria gets a raise
Episode 1575 -- 12th season finale, Heat Wave; Mr. Rogers visits Big Bird

CastEdit

Muppet Characters

Anything Muppets, Barkley, Bert, Big Bird, Buster the Horse, Clementine, Cookie Monster, Count von Count, Countess Dahling Von Dahling, Deena, Dr. Nobel Price, Elmo, Ernie, Ferlinghetti Donizetti, Forgetful Jones, Grover, Honkers, Kermit the Frog, Masha, Oscar the Grouch, Pearl, Poco Loco, Mr. Snuffleupagus, Telly Monster, Two-Headed Monster, Warren Wolf

Human Characters

Gordon, Susan, Maria, Luis, Linda, Bob, David, Mr. Hooper, Olivia, Buffy, Mr. Macintosh, Willy

Actors

Linda Bove, Northern Calloway, Emilio Delgado, Will Lee, Loretta Long, Sonia Manzano, Bob McGrath, Roscoe Orman, Alaina Reed, Buffy Sainte-Marie

Muppeteers

Caroll Spinney, with Kevin Clash (uncredited), Michael Earl Davis, Jim Henson, Richard Hunt, Brian Muehl, Jerry Nelson, Frank Oz, Karen Prell, Bryant Young

Guest Stars

Cab Calloway, Itzhak Perlman^[2], Fred Rogers

Season 12 CreditsEdit

Executive Producer: Dulcy Singer
Producer: Lisa Simon
Directed by: Jon Stone
Head Writer: Norman Stiles
Writers: Sara Compton, Judy Freudberg, Ray Sipherd, Tony Geiss, Emily Perl Kingsley, Tom Dunsmuir, David Korr, Luis Santeiro, Peter Swet, John Glines
Supervising Film Producer: Edith Zornow
Associate Producer: Bob Glover
Original Muppets by: Don Sahlin, Kermit Love,
Current Muppets by: Caroly Wilcox, Ed Christie, Cheryl Blalock
Music Coordinator: Danny Epstein
Conductor: Dave Conner
Post Production Supervisor: Ozzie Alfonso
Associate Director: Emily Squires
Director of Operations: Ronald L. Weaver
Production Supervisor: Frieda Lipp
Art Director: Alan J. Compton
Production Stage Manager: Chet O'Brien
Stage Managers: Mortimer J. O'Brien, Hank Smith
Set Decorator: Nat Mongioi
Costume Designer: Don Sheffield
Graphic Artist: Gerri Brioso
Senior Scenic Artist: Victor DiNapoli
Assistant to the Producer: Cathi Rosenberg-Turow
Production Coordinator: Arlene Sherman
Production Assistants: Diane Mitchell, Cheryl Ann Jung, Lynn Roberge, Stuart Lovery, Danette Morganelli, Joseph Catalano, Mercedes Polanco, Thelma Moses
Film Editors: Mike Breddan, Joel Appel
Technical Advisor: Walt Rauffer
Unit Manager: Ruth Scovill
Technical Director: Ralph Mensch
Lighting Director: David M. Clark, William Knight
Sound Effects: Dick Maitland
Audio: Louise J. Bruno
Video: Bryan Keen
Camera: Frank Biondo, Arnold Giordano, Joe LoRe'
Videotape Editors: John Hutchison
Make-Up: Michael Gemelli
Hair Stylist: Karen Specht
Wardrobe: Grisha Mynova
Curriculum Coordinator: Robert J. Emerick
Vice President for Research: Edward L. Palmer
Director of Research: Lewis Bernstein
Associate Director of Research: Maria Rosa Alvarez, Janet Shapiro
Chairman, Board of Advisors: Gerald S. Lesser
Creative Consultant: Jon Stone
Vice Presidents of Production: David D. Connell, Al Hyslop
Recorded at Reeves Teletape 81 St. Studio